BWAHAHAHAHA. Do it! Take pictures!

 

Thanks for all the info. It sucks that I just bought $60 worth of fricking fire wood, but I guess its better than the house burning down. I did do a little research on the fireplace before I sent this out, but I couldnt find any information. I used the plate with serial number but there wasnt anything with a model number. I knew I could count of my fellow F150onliners to get an answer. haa

 

Hope you have the fire department on speed dial Matt.

 

Something tells me that the fire department and EMS are on a first name basis with this guy.

 

OK...some of your stories Matt, I have suspended my belief for your benefit that maybe there is SOME sense in that mush in your head you call a brain. But this...I just can't do it man. I'm speechless.

I can only pray you wise up (maybe take some advice from here) before you hurt yourself and/or put other lives at risk.

 

It is probably part of training. Please scout out at least 3 routes to this address <insert Mattineer's house here>.

 

I couldn't stop laughing when I read this! Oh my god.

What would make you think you could burn wood in gas fire place? Seriously dude?

This is what would happen! No joke. Plus you would probably blow your neighborhood up......gas.....natural gas!

 

Well, as some people have suggested, if the fireplace was designed for wood burning and prepared/converted to gas, you can shut off the gas supply, pull out the gas insert and burn wood again. I burned wood for part of last winter, but with the flue open all the way all the time, I not little heat inside the house. All right up the chimney. So, I bought a ventless gas insert, closed the flue, and get heat that should be more efficient than my 80% furnace.

 

I have a wood burning insert for my fireplace. I blows the heat into the room. Heats the whole first floor. Really great and no gas costs.

 

My fireplace seems to be one of the ones that looks to have been a wood fireplace to begine with, but had the gas installed as an option or something. The fireplace is heavy duty and has fire brick going all the way up.

Trust me, I wouldn't burn wood if I knew it wasn't safe to do so, I never have smoke inside the hosue nor soot anywhere to be found from the fireplace.

I light the fire and wood using the gas for only a couple minutes, then turn the gas off by the little key thingy I use to turn the gas on and off, from there on, I just keep throwing logs in.

The gas itself would never explode becuase i think theres a safty in the gas line that when the gas is shut off, it releases any gas that is left inside the gas line for the fireplace there for nothign to explode if the line got to hot or punchured some way.

 

Must be an low pressure reverse oscillating vacuum mitigation system which releases trapped gas from the feed line via liquid osmosis to mitigate the pressure lag.

 

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My suggestion: Call the gas company and ask them. This may require giving them the model number, or even potentially may need someone to look at it.

As others have mentioned, I'm betting that even if the fireplace was originally designed for wood, that the gas... device (log set?) would need to be completely disconnected or possibly removed completely, and the gas line capped off properly (away from the fireplace). I am sure there are codes and regulations for this sort of thing.

An example of what *could* happen:
**note: I'm no expert, but let's pretend that I slept at a holiday inn express last night.***
-Say that over time, perhaps the excessive heat from wood fires slowly deteriorated the gas line, to the point where it eventually ruptured. Let's also say that this, for some reason, occured in the firebox area. Even though you may not experience an "explosion" (per se), since the fire was already burning... you MAY suddenly experience SEVERAL extra feet of flames, perhaps spraying in a direction you do not wish it to go.

Generally I'm a big fan of Darwin's work, but I'm not too grinchy this time of year. If you don't know the answer for sure, take some time to find out. Even with all the great folks here on the forum, it may behoove you to consult with an expert to keep you and your family safe.

 

Ok bottom line, get it checked by a professional before you do anything. Damn.

 

Sound advice......

Never assume anything, especially when it comes to anything highly flammable.

If you don't know then you don't know, no shame in that, be wise enough to find some one who does. Why risk it?
The grape is not worth the squeeze in that scenario.

 

Thanks for all the advice. I'm gonna buy gas logs and sell the wood to my friend who doesnt seem to care about burning it in his gas fireplace.

Semper Fi